At the beginning of this year as part of my New Year's resolution to get organized, I spent an hour or two a day for about two weeks, reading through the entire Doujins.com catalog of yuri and futa content. I would say the whole process took roughly 15-20 hours to get through them all as yuri had 53 pages of doujins to shift through and futa had 72. However, god dammit I put some grease on my elbows and got to work. Now I’m going to quickly come clean and make it clear that I didn’t sit there and read through the entirety of every single work from page one to page done. If that were the case I might still be trying to make my way through the collections. Instead, I looked for key elements to efficiently identify doujins worth favoriting.
How it felt when I started on page 72.
First and foremost, CG-sets from hentai games where there was minimal to no dialogue were immediately ousted. I had a big smile on my face whenever I found one because it meant it was an easy skip. Secondly, page count took my attention. I did an article a while back claiming my target page count for doujins was about 30-40 and I stand by that to this day. When a doujin is like 8 pages it better have the most bussin’ art of all time and thankfully that wasn’t the case for most of the material, which meant another easy way of throwing out a bunch of contenders. Thirdly I’d look at tags. Obviously everything was subject to being interesting for me since I was already sorting by tags I enjoyed, but I also looked at the subtags. It’s one thing to see “yuri, females only” in the taglist and another to see “yuri, extortion, blackmail, deranged, damn this one crazy”. One has a bit more spice you see. So if it was a doujin, had a decent page count, and displayed tags I thought I’d enjoy then I decided to actually read the bitch to see what I was working with and if it was worthy of becoming a favorite. Color also played a role in that I generally always read colored doujins since they’re so rare, but I don’t remember ever adding a doujin to the collection SOLELY because it was colored.
Oh, and one more thing. Artstyle played a much bigger role than I had anticipated. Upon reading through so many doujins, as Drake once said, “After a while girl they all look the same”. I can’t tell you how many Love Live doujins there were that looked the same and played out the same way almost every fucking time. When I found a piece with a unique, clean arstyle it immediately piqued my interest. Sometimes the art would be so refreshing I’d add something to the favorites list even if the subject matter wasn’t my normal specialties. So to summarize, my organizing process revealed to me that I look for page count, tags, color, and arstyle to determine if a doujin is worth reading through. After that the dialogue, story content, sex, aka what actually fucking happens determines if it gets that favorite designation.
How it felt when I made it to page 1.
But what metrics do you guys use? Are you caught up to the point where you just read every doujin that releases that has tags you like? Are your interests niche enough to where you’re grateful for every release or do you need to use metrics to narrow down the shit you’re actually going to spend time reading? What makes you look at a doujin and go “yep, lemme read that bad boy”? And furthermore, what makes you click that favorite button? Check the page count, review the arstyle ,and leave a comment below!
P.S. I forgot to mention, established franchises definitely play a role. A yuri doujin where two girls fuck is one thing, but a yuri doujin where established characters fuck is a much more interesting thing assuming I’m familiar with the characters already.
